Leather #Portfolio Folder Padfolio for Business School Office Conference Presentation Interview Review

In a week Mica starts his first camp for the Healthcare Academy. I wanted him to have something to keep all his papers together all fancy like. 

Thankfully we got a Leather Portfolio for him to use. 

Inside:

The inside has different pockets for him to put papers. Right now I have his certificate that he got. He can put other papers in there too.

There's a pen holder as well.

I Love That...

It feels good to hold. Leather just it a fancy material! 

The pockets are unique in that they are 3 different sizes. 

It's great for many uses. It would be wonderful for job interviews, school, or business use.

I Wish That...

It had a zipper, so papers in no way will fly out on a windy day. It does have a rubber texture that holds things in. 

I wish it had one more holder, for an additional pen. I mean what if one goes out? I always carry more than one, just in case.

Cost:

You can get it on Amazon Prime for $11.99 https://www.amazon.com/Leather-Portfolio-Folder-Conference-Presentation-Letter-Size-Writing-Pad-Notepad/dp/B07PXVRK9J?psc=1&SubscriptionId=AKIAIJKR6IY4BV5FKK7A&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07PXVRK9J/ref=sr_1_5&ie=UTF8.

Do you have something fancy to hold important papers? 

Disclaimer: All opinions are my own. The company didn't tell me what to write.

Our Meeting With the Principal and Teacher Went Really Good!

I didn't want to leave my readers hanging...so the meeting with Isaak's Principal and teacher went really good!

We didn’t go in attacking anyone. I was afraid I would cry, and didn't. It was great we had everything written down, so we didn't forget things.

We do know Isaak has filled his own plate too full. Two things in particular are towards the end of his school day: Chorus and Student Council. Student Council doesn't happen all the time. But they have meetings, and rotate with taking care of recyclables. When those things happen Isaak has to hurry to go to Safety Patrol. Then he can't get back in his classroom to get his homework. He sometimes misses the end of the day announcements. He may drop one. He’s a people pleaser, so that might be hard.

He tanked a test, so we talked about that. He’s usually great with math, but word problems get him. He’s to practice online. The teacher is going to be more informative on when tests will happen. Right now we only know the day before. If he doesn’t have his math book with him, then we can’t help him. He didn’t know what deposit or withdrawal meant, so vocabulary talk before tests. Other kids struggled with that too.

It turns out because Isaak’s a people pleaser, he does too much homework. She’ll give him every other problem, and he does all of them. He thinks he’s being ultra good by doing that.

I talked to the teacher about delivery. Like instead of saying, “You have 14 pages of fun work to do by next week, or you don’t get to watch movies with the rest of the class.” Say, “You have to do 2 pages a day out of this packet, for a week.”

The Principal will be meeting with him to talk to him about his thoughts. He knows who Isaak is, but has never really had to get to KNOW him because he's a good student that pretty much stays out of trouble. The Principal wants to get to know Isaak more.

We have a follow up meeting in January.

I do think the teacher is hanging onto busy work too much. She loves these sheets that has a big scrambled up long word, and the kids have to make shorter words out of the letters. Then there's another side that has synonyms on it. I suggested to keep doing them, but also having reading with questions that go with a book of of their choice. I don’t know that, that will happen.

I guess they are having more recess time, but Isaak didn’t think so.

The Principal thinks Isaak is too tuned into others emotions, which their are some bad apples in the class. He’s also full of empathy, so that will be hard to overcome.

I made it clear that this is our first year with problems. It’s not 1 person’s fault, but we have to work with one another to figure out why he’s struggling.

The view of it seems that he filled his own plate too full, and for some reason hasn't connected well with this teacher.

One thing is great: Isaak's teacher has gotten him to work faster. That's always been a struggle. He's just a slow poke. His teacher last year tried using a timer, and that sort of worked. His big eyes kept glancing at the timer. She shows the class a photo on a screen, puts it up for a certain period of time, turns it off, and makes them write down all they can about the photo. It's cut his test taking time down a lot! He still tests well. 

Mica's School Conference

Mica's teacher was running late on her conferences, so I didn't sit in on Mica's. We set up conference times to be back to back - Mica's then Isaak's. I can't imagine what parents do in a situation like that if they are a single parent. You do what you can. It's not always the teacher's fault that they are running behind. It could be that a previous parent came in late, maybe they had a lot to talk about with one parent, and didn't want to cut them off.

This was taken this weekend when he was watching The Young Indiana Jones.

We generally set the boys up in the hallway to watch a DVD. I remember when I was younger my parents always got a babysitter for conference time. Now it seems ok to have kids go with. Some even go in the room with the parents. We try and avoid the kids coming in with us.

Mica's doing great!

This was hung up in the hallway at school. It's not really cute, but certainly shows what his interests are.

He wants to be an Inventor, he likes technology - notice the Apple computer, his favorite books at the time were Bones and Amulet, his favorite movie is Indiana Jones, and he likes us - his family apparently. :)

He actually acts as a teacher's helper.

Mica likes to teach people things. He's great at teaching kids with a lower rank in Jiu-Jitsu to. I have noticed he's been better about helping at home lately. I just wish he'd take more initiative with helping at home. Most kids his age do not jump at doing work.

Mica's in 3rd grade. He's in a gifted program, and reads at a late 5th grade reading level.

Being gifted isn't always what it is cracked up to be. I have to watch for reading content when we pick out books. I also have to get on him about not bragging about being in that gifted program.

I was in the special classes to growing up, and it wasn't for being smart. I needed extra help. Things didn't click for me. All of my friends were in the gifted, smart kid club, and not one of them bragged about it, or belittled me because I wasn't.

The key thing for us is to keep Mica's mind busy. 

Every 2 to 3 weeks we go to the library to get a handful of books. He picks out most of what he wants. I pick out one biography book about someone I want him to learn about, or a classic book. Once it was Houdini, another time it was Anne Frank, then Helen Keller, and Ben Franklin. We've gotten Charlotte's Web, Treasure Island, and more. You get the point.

Mica has to work at math, but he's doing great with it according to his teacher.

He's the opposite of me: He loves P.E., Science, and Social Studies. I liked Art, Music, and English when I was a kid.

I do worry with both of my kids and friends.

Mica has good friends, but they are from different parts of the world. One is from Jamaica and another is from Ethiopia. They are super nice. I have no problem with the kids he hangs around with.

He did have solid friends in Kindergarten and 1st grade that were kind of pushed aside when he entered 2nd grade. All the sudden in 2nd grade Mica's good friends were in another class. His good friends he had before were history. I don't know if this is a big deal, or not? I guess it is to me because once I had a good friend I held on to them. I encourage Mica to play with both sets of friends. There's nothing wrong with his new friends, but I dislike how he doesn't include his old friends. He is young, and is a boy. Maybe Daddy is right, I'm making too big of a deal with this. What do you think?